MARTA SPAGNOLI

Marta Spagnoli (Verona, 1994) lives and works in Venice. She graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. 

The artistic practice of Marta Spagnoli is mainly focused on painting and drawing. Through them, she investigates the characteristics of the mark and marking, regarded as a “natural action” and a starting point for the development of medium and large-sized canvases. Organic, mythological and anthropomorphic elements intertwine with each other and animate an evolving space, free from temporal and spatial collocation. The white of the blank canvas is the starting point and the main interlocutor for the chromatic and narrative unfolding of the works, color and material which constantly rewrites the structure of each image. Among the topics of greatest interest to her is the study of the constant reciprocity between the human experience, the animal dimension and the environment that hosts them. 

Among her solo and group exhibitions: Sensing Painting. Works from the Fondazione CRC Art Collection, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Marcella Beccaria, in collaboration with Fondazione CRC Cuneo, Castello di Rivoli (2023); Pittura Italiana Oggi, Triennale di Milano (2023); De Leur Temps (7), Un Regard sur les Collections Privées Françaises, Dunkerque (2023); A World of Coexistence — 2022 Jinan International Biennale, Jinan, China (2023); DA→A Gli artisti della Collezione BLM 1998→2018, curated by Stefano Coletto, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (2022); In primo luogo, solo show, Galleria Continua, Rome (2022); TICKING ON THE HORIZON, curated by Leo Orta, Cloud Seven, Bruxelles (2022); A Parallel Viewpoint, curated by Leo Orta, Moulin de Sainte-Marie, Boissy-Lc-Châtel, France (2022); IL EST ICI, TOUJOURS AILLEURS, Galleria Continua, Paris and Les Moulins, France (2022); Earthly Body, solo show at Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France (2021); Italian Twist, curated by Imago Mundi Foundation, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso (2021); Truc à faire, curated by JR, Galleria Continua, Paris (2021); Felicia Munera, for Una Boccata d’Arte, Ronciglione, Italy (2020); Whiteout, solo show at Galleria Continua, San Gimignano (2020); Libere Tutte, curated by Daniele Capra and Giuseppe Frangi, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese, Italy (2019); Estate Autunno, State Of, Milan (2019); Art Zagreb, Zagreb (2019); Immersione Libera, Palazzina dei Bagni Misteriosi, Milan (2019); 102nd Young Artists Collective, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Venice (2019); Braintooling, Forte di Monte Ricco, Pieve di Cadore (2018); Progettoborca, a residency program for Dolomiti Contemporanee, Borca Di Cadore, Belluno (2018); Opera Prima, ASP-ITIS, Trieste (2018).

In 2019, she won the first Artissima for Vinitaly prize and 2nd prize ex-aequo in the 102nd Young Artists Collective of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice.

Her works are part of the following public collections: Fondazione CRC, Cuneo, Italy; Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice; Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice.